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The privy key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse…The privie key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse…
The privy key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse on that subject with the resolution of several considerable questions : the main objections also against closet-prayer are here answered ... with twenty special lessons ... that we are to learn by that severe rod, the pestilence that now rageth in the midst of us / by Thomas Brooks.The privie key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse on that subject with the resolution of several considerable questions : the main objections also against closet-prayer are here answered ... with twenty special lessons ... that we are to learn by that severe rod, the pestilence that now rageth in the midst of us / by Thomas Brooks.
London : Printed for and are to be sold by John Hancock, 1665
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It was a most profane and 1blasphemous speech of that atheistical wretch, that told God, that ⟨p. 343⟩he was no common beggar, and that he never troubled him before with prayer, and if he would but hear him that time, he would never trouble him again.
It was a most prophane and 1blasphemous speech of that atheistical wretch, that told God, that ⟨p. 343⟩he was no common beggar, and that he never troubled him before with prayer, and if he would but hear him that time, he would never trouble him again.
- 1Heil. Mic. P. 376.
Closet-prayer is a hard work, and a man must tug hard at it, and stick close to it, as Jacob did, if ever 1he intends to make any internal or eternal advantages by it. Daniel chose rather to run the hazard 2of his life, than to give over praying in his Chamber. 'Tis not he that begins in the spirit, and ends in the flesh; 'tis not he that 3puts his hand to the plough, and looks back; but he that perseveres to the end in prayer, that shall be saved and crowned: 'Tis he that perseveres in well doing, that shall eat of the hidden Manna, and that shall have the White Stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows saving him that receiveth it. Those precious praying mourning souls, in that